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"I feel the need...the need for speed!"
Top Gun is just full of cheesy (yet classic) lines. The Tomcat is almost done (as you can tell from the background) and I decided to build its crew.
portfolio shoot with model Isabella in Bohuslän, Sweden
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Mer de nuages vers la plaine depuis Dzongri Top 4200 m situé dans le parc national du Kanchenjunga dans l'ouest du Sikkim en Inde.
D'après diapositive.
I seem to remember a few years ago that because of a territorial spat whereby Stagecoach spread south westwards from their traditional old Devon General area, First retaliated by moving into the Torbay open top market. Here in the summer of 2007 one of their converted ex Bristol Roe bodied Leyland Olympians A813 THW heads into Torquay with a less than impressive load.
It's 1737m here in Murren, I climbed up from the closed cogwheel train track, over there is Jungfrau (4158m) looms over heavy fog.
Top of Europe
Calella, Catalunya (Spain). I was on top of the Torretes hill for a sunrise session, absolutely alone - the very few people I had bumped into while walking along the quiet streets of Calella towards the hills were not early-risers but rather (half-drunken) late-stayers :-).
At some point I heard the faint noise of an approaching car winding up a gravel road - it is a distinctive noise, you know, growing and decreasing with the curves of the road. So I discovered that on the opposite side of the hill there was a dirt road leading almost to the towers.
The driver was a middle-aged tall, fair-haired man - a German, I suppose. Some silent greetings, not to disturb the peace of the place. He was there, just like me, to capture the magic of sunrise from that vantage point. He brought out his cell phone and took some shots ( I could hear the "click" at every shot, amplified by silence). Then he made himself comfortable leaning against the wooden structure of the observation point and, forgetting completely the growing fires of the sunrise and the glittering, rippled surface of the sea ... he begun chatting on his phone :-)) So I captured the scene to upload it as a memento: every moment in our life has its top priorities - let everyone determine her own :-)!
60009 'Union Of South Africa' and 60007' Sir Nigel Gresley' sit on shed at Buckley Wells prior to there appearance at the ELR autumn steam gala. Night Shoot organised by the fantastic 3P20 Charters. 17/10/14
Top view of the tower Bredablick at Skansen, the world’s oldest open-air museum, in Stockholm, Sweden. December 2022.
The "Island Princess" as seen from Mt. Roberts... Can you spot the people walking below? :)
Have a lovely day, everyone...
Walked all the way to the top of Berlin's Victory Column. Nice to have this view after the extremely claustrophobic spiral steps.
Enjoying sunrise from the top deck of the Junk Boat in Halong Bay, Vietnam. Hard to believe it's almost been a year since I was here! Gives me the traveling itch...there's something so exciting about traveling abroad!
How quickly things change. The UTAH doesn't run coal trains anymore, the MK50Cs are gone to Kansas, and the old D&RGW signals have succumbed to progress. But at least the rails here remain at the top of the world where in better times we see an empty eastbound coal train nearing the 7477 ft. crest of Soldier Summer after climbing some 2000 ft. on grades as much as 2.3% from Provo 50 miles to the east.
For over a century the UTAH Railway has been a staple of railroading in its namesake state sharing these rails with the Denver and Rio Grande Western, and then successors Southern Pacific and Union Pacific. Founded in 1912 and completed in 1914 the UTAH was a 100 mile long road whose sole purpose in life was to haul coal for its parent the United States Fuel Company (itself a subsidiary of United States Smelting, Refining and Mining) that owned extensive coal lands in east central Utah. The UTAH constructed a new line from Provo to Thistle then negotiated with the D&RG (it wasn't the D&RGW yet) to exchange trackage rights on the Grande's single track line. Concurrently the D&RG double tracked and realigned its route from Thistle to Helper and the UTAH was granted trackage rights over those 50 miles creating a 70 mile long jointly operated double track railroad. Just two miles west of Helper at Utah Railway Junction the UTAH's own line struck off 25 miles through their new headquarters town of Martin and on to the mines at Hiawatha and Mohrland.
The Grande operated the line for the new owners for its first three years until they assumed their own control in 1917 and it stayed that way ever since. I could go into much more detail but honestly everything you ever wish to know about this road has already been researched and written by Don Strack so check out this link:
utahrails.net/utah-ry/utah-ry-history.php
In 2002 the railroad was sold by its parent company Mueller Industries (corporate successor to United States Fuel) to Genesee & Wyoming. But by that date the UTAH was a much different railroad. Though still a major coal hauler it had expanded into the carload business as result of the UP/SP merger. When the BNSF was granted trackage rights across the Central Corridor (the old Grande) they contracted with the UTAH to handle their local business in the Salt Lake valley including crewing BNSF's run thru trains between Provo and Ogden. In addition to that, the UTAH was also granted overhead rights east to Grand Junction and rights to serve additional Utah coal mines and loadouts that had been exclusively Grande and SP served. And in 1999 it grew a bit more when it took over Railtex's Salt Lake City Southern operation.
As late as 2008 the UTAH was running up to three coal trains a day and all that growth required new power. Consequently they acquired this unique fleet. Seen leading is UTAH 5004 an MK50-3 and trailing are three siblings and an Australian built SD50S. The MK50-3s were built as a MK5000C demonstrators in 1994 and 1995 by Morrison-Knudsen spinoff MK Rail in their failed bid to break into the high horsepower road frieght market in direct competition with EMD and GE. At the time of its introduction in 1994, the MK5000C was the most powerful single prime mover diesel-electric locomotive ever made. After testing for a year on SP and UP with no orders the project was shut down and the six unique units languished until the UTAH bought them in 2001.
However, after one year of operation, all units were out of service due to problems with the main bearings on the Caterpillar 3612 diesel engine and Kato main alternator. They were returned to MK successor Wabtec who replaced them with EMD 3500 horsepower 16-645F3B diesel engines from retired SD50 and G50s and EMD alternators functionally turning them into rebuilt SD50s with one of a kind cabs.
They would remain stalwarts on the UTAH coal trains until the UTAH lost its last contract and the final coal train departed in January 2017 after 103 years. With no need for so many big six axle units to battle the grades anymore parent G&W shipped them all east within a couple months to the Kyle Railroad where they now haul grain on the plains of western Kansas on former Rock Island rails.
But let's look back to happier times when coal was still king in the Wahsatch and the hometown road still battled the grades up Soldier Summit every day.
Soldier Summit
Wahsatch County, Utah
Friday June 15, 2012
I hadn't seen an oil can like that since I was a kid, but it's a long time since I was around a working steam locomotive. I guess the two go together.
Pt & En
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Essa foto, a TOP 9 de 2018, foi feita em um dos últimos dias do ano. Passeando pela Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas vi esse biguá (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) bicho comum, pensei em não fotografar, depois de um tempo sentado perto, gostei da posse dele e fui até lá, me surpreendi com a plumagem com cores muito vivas e um percevejo andando em seu pescoço. Fotografei estourando o fundo para o foco ser total na ave e na sua elegância única e acabei adorando a foto. Um lembrete para quando eu pensar em esnobar uma oportunidade fotográfica novamente.
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This photo, the TOP 9 of 2018, was taken on one of the last days of the year. Walking by Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon I saw this quite common Neotropical Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), I thought not to photograph it, but after a while sitting near it, I liked the pose it was displaying and I went there, I was surprised by the plumage with very vivid colors and a bug walking in his neck. I photographed clipping the background aiming to shift the focus of the shot to the bird and its unique elegance.I ended up adoring the photo. A reminder for when I think of snubbing a photo opportunity again.
The most effectual Top Cat!
Who's intellectual close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it's with dignity.
Top Cat!
The indisputable leader of the gang.
He's the boss, he's a pip, he's the championship.
He's the most tip top,
Top Cat.
Yes he's a chief, he's a king,
But above everything,
He's the most tip top,
Top Cat.
Top Cat!
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